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Venner Milewski, a Navy Vietnam veteran, has been a patient at the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center for about six years. When he makes the 40-minute round trip trek from his home in York County, Milewski knows if he arrives by 8:30 a.m. he'll have to park five minutes from the facility because the main general parking lot beside the medical center will be filled. Any later, and it's a free-for-all, he said. "It's first-come, first-serve on the first grassy space you find," said Milewski, who is 100 percent disabled. "It's a parking nightmare." For some veterans, Milewski said, the jaunt isn't an option. So they double and sometimes...

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Venner Milewski, a Navy Vietnam veteran, has been a patient at the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center for about six years.
When he makes the 40-minute round trip trek from his home in York County, Milewski knows if he arrives by 8:30 a.m. he'll have...

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• Adult Entry 9 or Less Members: 1st Place - Prudential Towne Realty
• Adult Group 10 or...

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Recently, the chapter lost one of its furnaces that heats the largest room...

York County's historical committee will mark Veterans Day with a memorial service at noon Tuesday at York Hall, 301 Main St., Yorktown.
The service will include tolling of the bells, a presentation of the colors, singing of the National Anthem, the...

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